A New Place Of Worship For The Patients Of The Hospital Of Oncology in Bistriţa

Saturday, 30 July 2016, His Eminence Andrei, Metropolitan of Cluj, Maramureş and Sălaj consecrated the church of the hospital of oncology in Bistriţa, protected by Saint Hierarch Nectarios the Healer, saint patron of the cancer patients – Renaşterea Radio station informs.

The consecration service began at 9.00 hours, followed by the Divine Liturgy celebrated by His Eminence Andrei on a podium specially set up in the courtyard of the hospital. His Eminence celebrated together with a group of more than 20 priests including archpriests from Bistriţa, Beclean, Năsăud, Dej, Gherla and Huedin. Members of the medical staff and patients of the county hospital, abbots from several monasteries of the Eparchy and many faithful of the city attended the celebration.

The Metropolitan of Cluj urged all those present not to be indifferent to the sufferance of those around. At the end of the Liturgy, the director of the County Emergency Hospital of Bistriţa, Professor Dr. Mircea Gelu Buta was awarded the “Saints Constantine and Helen” Order on behalf of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, and priest Nicolae Cont, who has been volunteer in three sections of the county hospital of Bistriţa, was raised to the rank of iconom, archpriest Alexandru Vidican of Bistriţa transmitted to Renasterea radio station.

The place of worship built in Byzantine style in the courtyard of the medical unit located in Alba Iulia St. is the third one within the Bistriţa County Emergency Hospital, all the three of them raised at the initiative of the director of the medical unit, Professor Dr Mircea Gelu Buta, who wished the project to bring us back to the Christian medicine.

In 1998, the chapel located in the precincts of the Emergency Hospital was consecrated, and in 2011 a church dedicated to the “Unmercenaries Doctors Cosmas and Damian” was consecrated within the Hospital of Pneumoftiziology.

 

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